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Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis Caused by Balamuthia Mandrillaris -Case Report
- Source :
- Neurologia medico-chirurgica. 51:667-670
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Japan Neurosurgical Society, 2011.
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Abstract
- A 51-year-old immunocompetent Japanese woman presented with a rare case of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris. She was brought to our hospital with epilepsy. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed a homogeneously enhanced solitary mass in the left frontal lobe. Histological diagnosis was made by a biopsy, which suggested lymphomatoid granulomatosis. After that, her neurological condition got worse. New masses were found and had spread across the whole brain. She died 2 months later of cerebral hernia. Autopsy revealed that the patient had GAE caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris. GAE is usually fatal, and is difficult to diagnose except at autopsy. Therefore, awareness of this disease is important, and earlier diagnosis and the development of a better therapeutic strategy will improve clinical outcome.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
biology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Autopsy
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Balamuthia mandrillaris
Epilepsy
Solitary mass
Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain
Biopsy
medicine
Surgery
Neurology (clinical)
Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13498029 and 04708105
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurologia medico-chirurgica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2fd57174f7105b219320eb5bb056e163